Pride High is a comic book series written by Tommy Roddy and published by Pride Comics. It follows a gay/straight alliance at a superhero high school. The website also allows for readers to create their own characters on the message boards, and these characters have a chance to appear on the comic (and one of them has even joined the core group of characters).

Within the story, Pride High is the titular gay/straight alliance, and they act as a squad for the school's Inter-Squad Championships (ISC), in which students sharing a unifying interest form a five-person squad and compete with other said squads throughout the year in academics and, more noticeably, physical stadium matches. The prime antagonist squad to Pride High is called the Argonauts, a group of primarily super-strong characters.

Aside from the ISC, there is also a prevailing mystery, as one of the Pride High members dies early on, and the squad investigates what he was doing that may have lead to his death.

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Tropes in the official comic issues (Canon)

A Mind Is a Terrible Thing to Read: How does Kid Mischief find out he is able to read thoughts containing strong emotion? When he hears people thinking homophobic insults about him. Also stated in Mindsweeper's bio as what happened when he gained his powers.

Academy of Adventure: Poseidon Prep. Being a high school for superheroes-in-training it could hardly be otherwise.

Cross Over: Issues 5 and 8 cross over with the Legends. Issue 4 has Flaming Arrow of Heroscribe Comics in a cameo, and he appears in Pride High Freshman Flashback, originally posted on the Heroscribe Comics website.

One-Scene Wonder: More than one reviewer wanted to see more of Sister Bliss, despite only showing up in the background in a couple panels in issue 1 (though she was shown more prominently in issue 7, as she is a member of the Vixxens).

Our Gods Are Greater: Chip tranforms by invoking the Egyptian goddess Bast. Kid Olympus is similarly sponsored by, and has met, the Olympian gods. The Chinese gods are also mentioned, implying that the deities of all mythological religions are real in this universe, and apparently more powerful than superhumans.

Schedule Slip: Due to the independent nature of the comics, schedules are rarely kept. Issue 8 was scheduled for July 2008, but was finally released as a preview on the message boards on November 2011. Issue 9 is still scheduled, though.

Shared Universe: Implied with Lucky Legendary and Heroscribe Comics. These could be alternate universe versions, however. This could mean that So Super Duper is in their universe, as well, but it is debatable whether said comic appears in the Heroscribe universe (the indication: a Psyche side-story was included in Heroscibe's Queeroes anthology and was originally posted on its website—the comic itself did not explicitly tie in with the other heroes). As well, some stories in the message boards may also take place in the main universe.

Shoutout: So subtle it's almost a whisper out, but of you look closely at the beach scene in the latest update, you can see that KO is reading Hero, a real life novel about a gay teen superhero. If you've seen the cover before, it's obvious.

Sidekick: In the original conception, the kids were supposed to be this to the adult heroes (upon whom the series was to revolve). Kid Mischief was obviously supposed to be Mischief's sidekick.

Sins of Our Fathers: The faculty distrusts Cameron Ashton because both of his parents are villains.

Something Else Also Rises: After his and Mindsweeper's "mental making out" in issue 1, Kid Mischief tells Scotch Bonnet, "We just need things to... settle down" before they follow her out of the assembly hall.

Xtreme Kool Letterz: The Vixxens team name. Teh H4xx0rz often talk like this (ie: “pwned” and “stfu”) and their name shows instances of it, as well.

Yin-Yang Bomb: Faculty member Lightspot can control light and darkness.

Tropes on the message boards (Fanon)

Alternate Universe Fic: Some stories on the message boards are explicitly not canon (and others might be out of canon, as well), the most notable being My Deadly Valentine, Poseidon Preparatory Academy for Successful/Exceptional Youth and The Thirteen Trials of Dionysus Tan.

Light 'em Up: Bionique, though so far she can only produce normal white light, nothing more.

Loads and Loads of Characters: Due to the amount of members on the boards, there have been many characters created. Sometimes more than one can count will show up in a Role-Playing thread. Also, a rule stating that each reader could only have two official characters was lifted in late 2011, so things don't look to be changing course anytime soon.

Playing with Fire: Prideboy, Mystica and Asmodeus (both through spells), Red Shadow (who combines this with An Ice Person), Firesprite, Flaming Arrow, Damian, Jörmungandr and Itako (through the use of his spirit beast Aguni).

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